Papers on People and Biographies
Charles Darwin
Words: 589 - Pages: 3.... the position aboard the Beagle. The Beagle sailed to South America, making many stops along the coast. Here Darwin observed the plants and animals of the tropics and was stunned by the diversity of species compared with Europe. The most significant stop the Beagle made was the Galapagos Islands off the northwestern coast of South America. It was here that Darwin found huge populations of Tortoises; and he found out that diffrent islands were home to diffrent types of tortoises. He found that islands without tortoises, pricky pear cactus plants grew with their fruits spread all over the ground. And on Islands that had lots of tortoises, the p .....
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Malcolm X
Words: 335 - Pages: 2.... to Malcolm X. Following his
initial training, Malcolm became the leading spokesman for the Black
Muslims to the outside world.
An ideological split developed between Malcolm and the more
conservative Elijah Muhammad, and in 1963 Malcolm was suspended as a
minister of the Black Muslims. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he announced
(1964) that he had become an orthodox Muslim and founded the rival
Organization for Afro-American Unity. His travel in the Middle East and
Africa gave him a more optimistic view regarding potential brotherhood
between black and white Americans; he no longer preached racial separation,
but rather a socialist r .....
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Rachel Carson
Words: 2293 - Pages: 9.... others were better qualified to investigate
the pesticide industry. Despite the book’s enormous impact, she remained
modest about her accomplishment; as she wrote to a friend, “The beauty of
the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind
- that, and anger at the senseless brutish things that were being
done....Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.”1
Rachel Louis Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, PA.
Her childhood was characterized by a love of nature and literature. Her
family said she was born with a “seashell in her ear”. She graduated from
the Pennsylvania College for W .....
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Young And Beutiful
Words: 908 - Pages: 4.... to introduce herself “I shouldn’t jump to conclusions” I thought to myself “ She could be the supervisor from the organization “ , then she spoke.
“Hi, my name is W/rt Beza Getachew. I’m the new legal adviser for the agency.” She said in a very friendly voice ”you must be the manger”.
“Well it says on the door” I said as I introduced myself. I gave here the papers she needed for her work and told my secretary to help her organize her office.
The rest of the day I couldn’t do anything but think about this woman.
After work I offered to take her to the cafeteria and .....
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Harriet Tubman
Words: 590 - Pages: 3.... start of the story they were searching for Moses who they thought it was a man, which it was not it was , who wanted to run off slaves. The slaves at the story were patience. Harriet had promised them food, and shelter, when they got to the first stop in the farmhouse the man said they were a lot of slaves and that it was not safe, because the farmhouse had been searched a week ago before they arrived there, so they didn't had what she had promised them. The slaves didn't screamed at her or complained. When they arrived to Canada I think that even though they went through difficulties they got what they always dreamed, FREEDOM which means .....
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Changing Attitudes Of Ferhat Abbas
Words: 1858 - Pages: 7.... year after which he founded a pharmacist shop
in Setif. There he also founded a student union which was a start of his
political career. Soon he was accepted into the city Council where he fought
for the emancipation of Algerians from the French. In 1938 Abbas founded the
Union Populaire Algérienne which peacefully fought for the equal rights of
Algerians and French. Believing in the possible co-operation of French and
Algerians he had, fought alongside the French.
Political Career
During the war Abbas still continues his work towards the equality. In
1943 he wrote the 'Manifesto of the Algerian People' which was than proclaimed
a .....
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Harry Shippe Truman
Words: 1714 - Pages: 7.... had to read mostly
adult books. Another one of his favorite books were biographies of the U.S.
presidents. Harry read most of the three- thousand books that were in a
nearby library. Harry was very good in school because of reading all the
books. His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister
Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the
children lessons and noticed that Harry was especially gifted with the
piano. So, she sent him to get professional lessons with a woman named Mrs.
Edwin C. White. Everyone in his family thought that Harry would become a
concert Pianist. Harry thought so t .....
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Colin Powell
Words: 1130 - Pages: 5.... parents because his sister, Marilyn Powell, always did better. He attended Morris High School in 1950. He was good in high school; he never got into any fights or any sort of trouble. He completed High school in 1954 (source 1, page 29, 30, 32). Powell applied to two colleges City College of New York (CCNY) and New York University (NYU). Both accepted him but he went to CCNY because it only ten dollars a semester as opposed to seven hundred and fifty dollars a semester at NYU. Powell majored in Engendering. He finished college in 1958 (source 1 pages 32, 36). While in college Powell joined the Recruit Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Powell sa .....
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Al Capone
Words: 1490 - Pages: 6.... His father never hit the kids, he only talked to them. There were no disturbances, violence, or dishonesty about this family. The killer in Capone was thought to have come from when he had gotten his first job. Capone was a role model to many of the boys in the community. He worked for a man named Johnny Torrio. He ran errands, and got paid for it, so he had pocket change. Torrio was a new type of gangster. He was one of the first of this new breed and helped with the development of a newly found criminal enterprise.
There were other Capone children, not just Al. James Capone was the oldest child. The two other kids in the fa .....
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Stephen Vincent Benet
Words: 1336 - Pages: 5.... and the literature
of Stephen Vincent Benet a major part of his influence and achievements, he
helped push America towards a united cultural victory.
Stephen Vincent Benet was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James
Walker Benet, a career military officer, and Francis Neill Rose Benet on the
twenty-second of July 1898 (Roache 102: 11, 13). He described himself as a
positive-thinking and modest man, who is thin, attractive, vivacious, whereas
his wife and his mother-in-law would consider him a plain, tall, large biter-of-
nails who carries a foolish expression, but whose intellect is too much for
words (Parsekian 1).
He couldn't have b .....
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